Hi Giorgos!
On 02 Oct 04 at 10:51, "Giorgos" (Giorgos Keramidas) wrote:
Giorgos> The reason I liked this idea is that root has zillions of other
Giorgos> ways to destroy an entire system, but not many of them are likely
Giorgos> to be the result of mistyping a single character as shown below:
Giorgos> # rm -fr / home/someuser/*
I just wonder, if 'rm' is so fearful to you, why bother changing rm(1)?
Write a simple wrapper around, as many sysadmins do for their needs,
and use it instead of rm.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
for (@ARGV) {die "$_ is a boo-boo!\n" if m/^\//}
exit system 'rm' , @ARGV;
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Sincerely,
Dmitry Karasik
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